We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within … optimal levels of effort to all students. Because this scheme employs only ordinal information, our scheme allows education …

students on community college campuses. Scholarships were awarded in three payments each semester over the course of two … semesters. Payments were tied to students meeting two conditions—enrolling at least half time and maintaining a “C” or better … earned each semester. One year after random assignment, program group students were more likely to persist at their program …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the … that school finance has a significant effect on school district income sorting, especially among low income communities. …

income. More years in the U.S., higher education attainment and English language fluency remain strong predictors of …-born residents, or lower-income …

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

Solon’s (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …

intergenerational income correlation, a measure insensitive to changes in cross-sectional inequality that has implications for rank …, by 2000, the rate of intergenerational movement across the income distribution appears historically normal, but, as cross …

1984, 1990 and 1996 Surveys of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to the Social Security Administration's Summary …